Background
The son of John Fairclough, the elder brother of Daniel Featley, he was born in Northamptonshire in or about 1605.
The son of John Fairclough, the elder brother of Daniel Featley, he was born in Northamptonshire in or about 1605.
He was admitted either clerk or chorister at All Souls" College, Oxford, and took his Bachelor of Arts degree on 25 February 1624. After being ordained he went to Saint Kitts, the first preacher in the colony, in 1626. In 1639 he was made chaplain to Charles I, in the First Bishops" War.
In 1646 Featley was in Vlissingen, Netherlands.
After the Restoration he was appointed on 29 June 1660 chaplain extraordinary to the king, who presented him on 13 August to the precentorship of Lincoln, and in September following to a prebend in Lincoln Cathedral. In 1661 he was rector of Langar, Nottinghamshire.
He was later instituted to the vicarage of Edwinstowe, Nottinghamshire. On 7 June 1661 he was created by royal mandamus Doctor of Divinity at Oxford.
Featley died at Lincoln in 1666, and was buried in a chapel in the cathedral.